Fireworks - Using the Color Replacement Tool

Before you begin this lesson download and save the trolly.jpg image to your fireworks folder. You will use this image for this lesson.

The city of San Francisco would like to see what their trolly cars would look like with different colors. Your job is to replace the yellow color trolly with another color of your choice. To do this you will use the Replace Color tool.

1. Choose the Replace Color tool. This tool is found under the Rubber Stamp tool, click and hold your cursor over the tool to see the three options available.

2. You will notice that there are now two color boxes in the properties panel, a change color and a to color. Click on the change color box and then place the eye dropper on the yellow portion of the trolly car. This is the color you want to change. Notice that there is also a tolerance slider, remember the smaller the tolerance the more restrictive you are in your color selection. The higher the tolerance value the more shades of yellow will be included.

3. Click on the To color swatch and choose a the new color you want to place on the trolley. Adjust the Size of the brush so it is large.

4. Drag the cursor over the trolley. and watch how the tool takes the yellow color and replaces it with the color you chose.

5. Create a new layer called "Line Layer"

6. Use the line tool to draw a line along the side of the trolley.

7. Use the Text Tool to create a text box and type in San Francisco.

8. Select both the line and the text by holding the shift key while clicking on each using the pointer tool.

9. From the menu bar select Text > Attach to Path. This option can be useful when you want to align your text with an object.

10. Show your completed drawing to your instructor for teacher check.